Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [noun sg] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few words in Spanish had been painted on the tack-room roof . |
| 2 | Hurtado 's 15 months in office had been marked by an escalation in human rights abuses , especially repression by the specially created Hunapú security force . |
| 3 | To protect the double doors when they were open to allow the passage of vehicles , two large stones about fifteen inches square and three feet in height had been placed next to the brickwork by the pavement . |
| 4 | Whatever the force of these criticisms , Willis had introduced the role of the sub-culture into the transition from school to work and had shown how this was developed within the group — something which large scale surveys with their pre-structured questions and their questioning of individuals in isolation had been unable to do . |
| 5 | For Jay , many things in life had been easy , a walk-over , ; she had leapt over and through the academic hurdles and hoops of childhood and teenage with a lazy facility that she only realised later . |
| 6 | The significance of changes in anxiety noted was analysed by Student 's paired t tests , and data from the telephone questionnaire were compared by a two tailed Fisher 's exact test . |
| 7 | Laboratory studies in zoology had been established at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard under Louis Agassiz in the mid century . |
| 8 | The rendering of figures in action had been developed in pedimental sculpture , and perhaps extended occasionally to an independent group in the later sixth century : a fine marble torso from the Acropolis , under life-size , These us fighting one of his opponents , seems not to be from a pediment . |
| 9 | She said she had a dossier of complaints relating to the bedsit and requests to the owner to keep his tenants in order had been fruitless . |
| 10 | By October we find Smolensk party officials annulling a delayed payment of 425 pudy of rye still being demanded by one local authority ( some taxes in kind had been reduced from March onwards to a single uniform tax calculated in terms of rye ) . |
| 11 | A national survey of teachers ' attitudes to equal opportunities found that men were more likely to be opposed to promoting equal opportunities than women , but that differences in subject taught were more important than the sex of the teacher in determining his or her attitude . |
| 12 | The statistical significance of the differences in pressure obtained was assessed using analysis of variance followed by Sheffe 's method for multiple comparison . |
| 13 | On this occasion , the Canadian bags in question had been inadvertently included in such a consignment sent to Wandsworth . |
| 14 | The ability of some species to undergo explosive increases in population had been largely ignored by exponents of the balance theory , but the significance of such phenomena had now been recognized owing to the writings of Thomas Malthus . |
| 15 | The increases in efficiency demonstrated were not sufficient to justify the purchase of computing for every individual work position within the workshop , but plans were already afoot to provide a widespread management information system within the MU and it was hoped to include expert system diagnostics within this faculty . |
| 16 | A report issued on June 20 by the New York-based human rights group , Human Rights Watch , documented what it called " state sanctioned violence " against women and claimed that more than 70 per cent of women in custody had been subjected to physical and sexual abuse by police . |
| 17 | Johnston v Chestergate ( cited at 13.7.2 ) was the principal authority relied on in Burgess v Purchase & Sons ( Farms ) Ltd [ 1983 ] Ch 216 , where auditors explained how their valuation of the shares in question had been arrived at . |
| 18 | The crimes in question had been committed by my body , not by me . |